Thin plates of gold, each cut into the shape of a human tongue, were still resting inside the mouths of mummified remains ...

Archaeologists discovered this beaded ensemble in the Old Kingdom tomb of a female contemporary of King Khufu in Giza in 1927. The linen string holding the 7,000 beads together had disintegrated, but ...

Researchers examine a seven-and-a-half-ton limestone sarcophagus in a mummification workshop that dates back to ancient Egypt. Courtesy of Egypt Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Known for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horses drew Mubarak's coffin draped in the Egyptian flag at a mosque complex, followed by a procession led by President Abdel ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Feb. 15 (UPI) --A group of archaeologists say they have made quite the discovery -- a large, ancient Egyptian brewery that could produce almost 6,000 gallons of beer when it was up and running 5,000 ...

CAIRO – Egypt held a full-honors military funeral Wednesday for the country’s former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for nearly three decades before he was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring ...